Title: Guidance for Evaluating the Oral Bioavailability of Metals in Soils for Use in Human Health Risk Assessment 
Resource Type: document --> guidance / decision support 
Country: USA 
Year: 2007 
Availability: OSWER 9285.7-80, May 2007 
Author 1/Producer: US EPA 
Author / Producer Type: Agency, regulator or other governmental or inter-governmental body 
Report / download web link (=direct link): http://www.epa.gov/superfund/bioavailability/bio_guidance.pd ...  
Format (e.g. PDF): PDF 
EUGRIS Keyword(s): Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Receptor: Human health
Contaminated land-->Risk assessment-->Tools and procedures
 
Short description: The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to Regional risk assessors on how to assess site-specific oral bioavailability of metals in soils for use in human health risk assessments. This guidance is focused on media-specific relative bioavailability and does not address adjustments to default absolute bioavailability values. Also, this guidance addresses human health risk assessment and may not be necessarily useful for evaluating ecological receptors. Finally, the guidance document provides information on methodologies for directly assessing bioavailability and does not pertain to indirect methods for predicting bioavailability 
Link to Organisation(s): EPA Environmental Protection Agency
 
Submitted By: Professor Paul Bardos WhoDoesWhat?      Last update: 05/08/2007

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